One family's journey to zero waste in Chattanooga, TN
This whole blog was inspired by Beth Terry and her book Plastic Free, in which she challenges her readers to save their plastic trash and analyze it. We started tracking our own plastic trash in October of 2017. We had been reducing our trash for about 3 months and wanted to share our journey, as… Continue reading Plastic Waste Journal-May and June 2019
Here is our plastic waste for the month of April (I know, I'm posting this kind of late...): Looking at this pile, I have two feelings. On one hand it's cool to see how much less it is compared to where we started. But on the other hand it still feels like too much! Something… Continue reading Plastic Waste Journal April 2019
Here is the waste we produced in February and March! We were out of town for 2 weeks in February and I didn't haul our trash back with us, so some is missing 🙂 It was a mostly zero waste trip in terms of plastic use (although we flew in a plane....so increased pollution waste...not… Continue reading Plastic Waste Journal, February and March 2019
Both the recyclable and non-recyclable plastic waste we created from January 2019
Recently I've been enjoying shooting vlogs of our trash, but this post will still have some info I didn't fit into the video, especially about what to do with small kitchen appliances. In case you missed the vlog, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UcJbDQUxYU There were a few items I want to mention that aren't pictured here.… Continue reading Plastic Waste Journal, December 2018
Zero Waste Chattanooga 